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The adaptation gives better endurance to the Bajau people, known as sea nomads, by increasing spleen size and, in turn, boosting the number of oxygenated red blood cells when diving.  

Sara Brenner discusses why she took a break from academia to join the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, and what she hopes to accomplish there.

An investigation of 2.7 million patent submissions in the U.S. finds gender disparities throughout the application process.

Crowds of zooplankton swimming upward generate large downward jets of water, a study finds.

Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.

The alterations have been greater under rapidly-climbing global temperatures, suggesting key ecological relationships could be disrupted in the future.

After implantation, the tissue developed blood vessels and became integrated into neuronal networks in the animals’ brains.

Certain non-chromosomal defects are strongly associated with specific childhood cancers.

Many cities around the globe, including Washington, DC, saw shrunken crowd sizes, and numerous events turned into rallies rather than processions.

“I'm not a mad scientist. I'm absolutely furious.”

Rush Holt, CEO of AAAS, discusses what’s changed as a result of the March for Science—and what hasn’t.